Congressman Mark Green on Wednesday introduced legislation aiming to further crush the Iranian-backed Ansar Allah terrorist organization, also known as the Houthis.
The Tennessee Republican’s bill builds on President Donald Trump’s executive order designating the Houthis as a Foreign Terror Organization (FTO) by sanctioning those complicit in Houthi attacks, as well as those who have materially supported Houthi attacks or will in the future.
“We must do more to combat the Houthi rebels and sanction their suppliers,” Green told The Daily Wire. “President Trump’s actions and my legislation accomplish both.”
Trump first designated the Houthis as an FTO in the last weeks of his first term, but President Joe Biden rescinded it in February 2021 because the designation interfered with providing humanitarian aid to Yemen, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/politics/us-houthis-terrorist-list/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In January 2024, the Biden administration classified the Houthis as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity (SDGT). SDGT implements economic sanctions but does not impose travel bans or allow sanctions on those supporting the group as the FTO designation does, according to the State Department.
Trump once again designated the Houthis an FTO in a January <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-re-designates-the-houthis-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order.</a>
“The Houthis’ activities threaten the security of American civilians and personnel in the Middle East, the safety of our closest regional partners, and the stability of global maritime trade,” the order reads.
Green’s bill mandates the creation of three executive branch reports to provide updates about the Houthis’ threat to national security, their disturbances to freedom of navigation, and their violations of the United Nations’ arms embargo against Yemen.
“The Houthis have consistently threatened the lives of American citizens and military personnel,” Green said. “With this new designation, the United States stands ready to combat any threats against us and our allies in the Red Sea.”
Since November 2023, the Houthis have launched over 100 attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea and about 40 missiles and more than 300 drones at Israel, according to Green.
In February 2025, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/houthis-target-us-fighter-jet-drone-sam-missiles-first-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houthis fired</a> surface-to-air missiles at an American F-16 and MQ-9 Reaper drone.
“These egregious attacks must come to an end,” Green said. “The Iranian regime has fully backed the Houthi rebels in Yemen with weapons, funding, and political support. As a result, the Red Sea and the Middle East have become vastly more dangerous.”
Green sponsored <a href="https://markgreen.house.gov/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=4F4E1DE2-783C-4FF9-B3E1-2BC7735D8237" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a similar bill</a> in the previous Congress, which did not make it to a vote on the floor.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/houthis-re-designated-as-terror-group-by-state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced last week</a> that the State Department redesignated the Houthis as an FTO.
“Today’s action taken by the State Department demonstrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting our national security interests, the safety of the American people, and the security of the United States,” Rubio said in a <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-ansarallah-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
Rubio added that the United States would not tolerate any country engaging with terrorist organizations like the Houthis under the guise of practicing legitimate international business.
The State Department <a href="https://rewardsforjustice.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is offering</a> a $15 million reward and possible relocation for people who provide information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of the Houthis.

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Threats of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> espionage to the United States have increased over the last four years, according to a “threat snapshot” conducted by the House Committee on Homeland Security first shared with The Daily Wire. 
The snapshot documented more than 60 reported cases of China-backed efforts to take military secrets, steal trade information, and conduct transnational repression operations. The committee blasted former President Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of China, but said it was optimistic that the Trump administration would do more to counteract Beijing&#8217;s influence.
“The PRC has gained significant ground in its information warfare on American soil over the past four years,” Committee Chair Mark E. Green (R-TN) told The Daily Wire. “If you think the U.S. military and our government are the only targets of the Chinese Communist Party, think again. The shadow of Beijing’s malign influence falls upon American businesses, university campuses, and the critical infrastructure we rely on — not to mention those on U.S. soil who dare to speak out against the CCP.”
The “threat snapshot” tracked over 60 Chinese Communist Party cases across 20 states from January 2021 through February 2025. Many of the cases have been tracked in California, Illinois, Ohio, Florida, and New York, while other incidents have been reported in states like Tennessee and Alabama. 
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Included in the threat snapshot were statistics about how much effort the government takes to thwart Chinese influence. For example, the FBI opens a new case to counter a Chinese intelligence operation every 12 hours and that around 60% of all trade theft cases involve China. 
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The most recent incident tracked comes from February 5, when Chinese national Leon Ding was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/superseding-indictment-charges-chinese-national-relation-alleged-plan-steal-proprietary-ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> by the Justice Department for allegedly stealing information on artificial intelligence from Google. He was accused of stealing more than 1,000 unique files from Google. 
The committee also highlighted two incidents from December 2024. It pointed to the guilty plea of Chen Jinping, who operated an undeclared Chinese police station in Manhattan, and the arrest of Yaoning Sun, who allegedly worked for Beijing while employed as a campaign manager for a California political candidate. 
The committee also praised the commitments of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to counteract the influence of China.
“The People’s Republic of China is more than just a distant geopolitical adversary; the Chinese Communist Party is working to undermine U.S. sovereignty in our own backyards,” Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) told The Daily Wire. “With strength back in the White House and Texas leading the way, Beijing’s malign influence will no longer fly under the radar.”

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House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Green</a> (R-TN) said this week that the U.S. needed more FBI personnel to stop people from being radicalized into becoming terrorists after a man who recently converted to Islam declared his allegiance to ISIS and murdered 14 people in New Orleans this week.
Green&#8217;s remarks come after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a rented truck to mow down people in New Orleans&#8217; French Quarter before he got out and opened fire on law enforcement.
“What our FBI needs is more resources,&#8221; Green told CBS News on Friday morning.
He said that agents need to be looking for individuals who are online and becoming radicalized inside the U.S.
&#8220;The fusion centers do a pretty good job most of the time, but a situation like this where a guy gets radicalized, we don’t know exactly when, and then is turned on to do a mission like this, that’s the information that’s going to require boots on the ground all over the country, in places where people get radicalized,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And they pulled back after — initially, after 9/11, the FBI was everywhere looking, they caught those guys in upstate New York by doing that human intelligence,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But they’ve pulled back over the past several years, and they need to put that back into place.&#8221;
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The House Homeland Security Committee demanded this week that top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> officials provide information on how military assets were mobilized to respond to devastating Hurricane Helene damage done in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Carolina</a> in September. 
The committee announced Friday that it had asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) to provide details on how the Helene response was coordinated. The requests come as the Biden administration has faced intense scrutiny over its response to both Helene and Hurricane Milton. 
“The Committee on Homeland Security (Committee) is conducting oversight of the federal response to Hurricane Helene,” wrote Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) in a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-12-10-Green-et-al-to-Austin-DOD-re-Hurricane-Helene-DoD-Response.pdf">letter</a> sent to Austin on Tuesday. “Since Hurricane Helene’s landfall on September 26, 2024, the scale of mobilized resources, materiel, and personnel at the federal and state levels has been significant. The Committee seeks to better understand the use of military assets, the execution of Title 10 authorities, and how these efforts were coordinated in North Carolina, where the damage from Hurricane Helene is particularly acute.”
The letter was co-signed by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY).
Helene, which made landfall in September, led to devastating flooding in portions of East Tennessee and western North Carolina after torrential rain. Many residents reported that it took weeks for federal responders to arrive, and thousands are still without homes. 
According to the letters, more than 6,000 federal personnel, including 1000 National Guard Bureau troops, were sent to North Carolina by October 5.
“The intense breadth of Hurricane Helene’s impact requires significant DoD assets and personnel to assist in North Carolina’s immediate and long-term recovery,” the lawmakers wrote. 
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The committee wants all communications and documents between the DoD, FEMA, DHS, and North Carolina about how the military was used to respond to the flooding. It also wants documents showing how many DoD service members were requested for the response. 
Earlier this month, the committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-homeland-security-to-interview-second-fema-employee-about-trump-guidance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington, who ordered relief workers in Lake Placid, Florida, to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” The committee is investigating Washington&#8217;s claims that FEMA had a widespread policy of avoiding politically hostile homes. 
Other whistleblowers have alleged that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-ask-for-probe-into-allegations-fema-skipped-entire-neighborhoods-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entire neighborhoods</a> in North Carolina were skipped over if there were three or more Trump signs in the community.

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The House Homeland Security Committee plans to interview a second FEMA employee about a former supervisor&#8217;s instruction for relief workers to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fema-fires-official-who-told-hurricane-relief-workers-to-skip-trump-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skip homes</a> in Florida displaying Trump flags or signs, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-TN) sent the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/2024-12-05-Green-et-al-to-Hershey-re-Transcribed-Interview_Redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> Thursday afternoon to Chad Hershey, the supervisor of  former FEMA employee Marn&#8217;i Washington, who ordered workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” The request to Hershey comes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-to-question-fired-fema-supervisor-over-guidance-to-skip-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one day</a> after the committee interviewed Washington, who issued the Trump home guidance both verbally and in a text message. 
“The Committee seeks to uncover the complete nature and extent of FEMA’s misconduct in withholding federal assistance from Americans based on political affiliation,” Green wrote. “Your observations and experience as Ms. Washington’s Task Force Lead for the Disaster Survival Assistance Task Force are vital to the Committee’s investigation.”
The letter was also signed by Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY). 
Citing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">reports</a> from The Daily Wire, Green wrote that Hershey should schedule a transcribed interview with the committee by December 9. Green indicated that the committee wanted to ask Hershey about comments she made in interviews after she was fired over the guidance, saying that he had directed her to issue the guidance. 
“In an interview following her termination, Ms. Washington claimed that her instructions to FEMA workers were not exceptional, but rather that you, as her direct supervisor, instructed her to avoid homes that had signs bearing support for President-elect Donald J. Trump to avoid ‘community trends of political hostility,’” Green wrote. 
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When first contacted by The Daily Wire, Hershey said that he was “aware” of the situation with the Trump guidance, and that it was being looked into. 
“We are aware of it and we are taking proper action in this situation currently,” Hershey said last month, adding that “we are taking action at this moment regarding the situation that you’re talking about.” 
Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped due to the guidance. Those homes have since been visited by relief workers, according to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. 
Since the first story broke, other whistleblowers have alleged FEMA misconduct toward Trump supporters in Georgia and North Carolina.

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The House Homeland Security Committee will interview the fired FEMA supervisor who ordered relief workers in Florida to skip homes with Trump flags or signs, a committee spokesman told The Daily Wire. 
The committee on Tuesday will interview Marn’i Washington, who was fired last month by FEMA after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that she had ordered relief workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump&#8221; as they canvassed after Hurricane Milton. Since the story broke, Washington has claimed that FEMA made her a scapegoat, and that it is agency policy to skip “politically hostile” homes. 
Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-to-question-fired-fema-supervisor-over-guidance-to-skip-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> Friday that Washington schedule a transcribed interview to discuss her accusations against FEMA and her guidance in Florida. 
“While FEMA may maintain that this was an isolated incident, you suggested in a recent interview that this practice of discrimination was widespread throughout FEMA, including in disaster response efforts in North Carolina,” Green wrote. &#8220;Government discrimination against American citizens based on a political sign or flag promoting a particular candidate is not only an outrageous abuse of power and a serious betrayal of the public trust, but a direct violation of the First Amendment.&#8221;
Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped in Lake Placid due to Washington’s guidance. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell confirmed this number during congressional testimony and said that agency staff had visited the neglected homes to register survivors after the story broke. 
Criswell told lawmakers that the incident was isolated, contradicting Washington’s comments in media interviews and allegations from other whistleblowers. One whistleblower <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fema-advised-georgia-hurricane-victims-to-remove-trump-signs-comer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the House Oversight Committee that a FEMA supervisor in Georgia directed a family to remove Trump campaign signage from their home, saying it was not “looked kindly” on by the agency. 
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On Tuesday, lawmakers on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-ask-for-probe-into-allegations-fema-skipped-entire-neighborhoods-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> in a letter to Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari that they had heard whistleblower reports from North Carolina alleging whole neighborhoods had been skipped over if there were three or more Trump signs in them. 
“In North Carolina, the Committee is aware of reports of FEMA employees skipping any home that displayed a ‘Make America Great Again,’ ‘Drain the Swamp,’ ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ or Trump campaign sign. If the FEMA field team encountered three or more of these signs, the field team could abandon the entire neighborhood without notifying hurricane victims of assistance available to them,” Committee Chair Sam Graves and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) wrote. 
FEMA has yet to respond to any of the follow up allegations, but maintain that they are still investigating Washington’s guidance.

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The House Homeland Security Committee plans to interview fired FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington about her instructions to relief workers in Florida to skip homes displaying Trump signs or flags, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire.
Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) requested Friday that Washington appear for a transcribed interview to discuss her recent claims that FEMA has a widespread policy of avoiding “politically hostile” homes. Washington made the comments after The Daily Wire reported that she instructed federal relief workers in Lake Placid, Florida, to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” 
Green wrote that the interview was part of the committee’s investigation into “potential discrimination against disaster victims based on political affiliation” and wanted to schedule the interview by November 25. He said the interview would help lawmakers as they seek “to uncover the complete nature and extent of FEMA’s misconduct in withholding federal assistance from Americans based on political affiliation.”
<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/CHSletter.pdf">The letter</a> was also signed by Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY). 
“Natural disasters don’t consider a person’s political beliefs when devastating homes, businesses, and livelihoods,” Green told The Daily Wire. “Alleged guidance within FEMA to discriminate against fellow Americans in their time of need represents an unacceptable failure to fulfill the agency’s vital mission and a betrayal of the public trust that deserves oversight.”
He added that the committee plans to uncover whether Washington’s instructions were isolated or &#8220;systemic practice” at the Department of Homeland Security. If systemic, Green said “it would mean an unknown number of vulnerable Americans have been passed over for necessary resources simply because of their protected speech.”
Whistleblowers assigned to Washington&#8217;s relief team told The Daily Wire that they skipped at least 20 homes in Lake Placid due to the guidance. FEMA fired Washington on November 9, calling the guidance an “isolated” incident that did not reflect the agency. 
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“Government discrimination against American citizens based on a political sign or flag promoting a particular candidate is not only an outrageous abuse of power and a serious betrayal of the public trust, but a direct violation of the First Amendment,” Green wrote. “This discrimination has no place in our government, and the Committee is determined to ensure that such actions do not occur again in any of FEMA’s operations.”
In an interview after she was fired, Washington told Roland Martin that FEMA’s suggestion that she made an independent decision to avoid certain homes is a mischaracterization, stating that it is agency policy and likely happening in the Carolinas.
Green referenced this interview in his letter to Washington on Friday and encouraged her to cooperate with their investigation. 
“While FEMA may maintain that this was an isolated incident, you suggested in a recent interview that this practice of discrimination was widespread throughout FEMA, including in disaster response efforts in North Carolina,” he wrote. 
The House Oversight Committee grilled FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about the guidance on Tuesday.

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House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX), blasted the Biden-Harris administration after the arrest of an Afghan national in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Election Day.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi has been charged by the Department of Justice with plotting the attack on behalf of ISIS. “Tawhedi was brought to Oklahoma under the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s special immigrant visa program following the administration&#8217;s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. CC 1 is Tawhedi&#8217;s brother-in-law and was brought to the U.S. in 2018,” The Daily Wire noted.
“When tens of thousands of insufficiently vetted individuals are let into the interior, this is the inevitable result,” the two GOP leaders wrote. “This Committee has repeatedly warned of the terror threats stemming from the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s failed leadership and disastrous border security policies. Unfortunately, our calls for transparency regarding the inadequate vetting and screening following the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan continue to go unanswered—and, here, Americans almost paid the price. We appreciate the efforts of law enforcement in thwarting this alleged terror plot on Election Day, but President Biden and Vice President Harris must reverse course on their misguided policies and put the safety and security of the American people first.”
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In <a href="https://house.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98549d605f077248c2019d3db&amp;id=cebeae1455&amp;e=df5aeb1539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 2024,</a> the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported that DHS’ process of vetting and identifying derogatory information Afghan parolees for Operation Allies Welcome was problematic. Prior to that, in 2023, Green <a href="https://house.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98549d605f077248c2019d3db&amp;id=b4e4d7cf6c&amp;e=df5aeb1539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a subpoena</a> to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for documents and information on the vetting and screening of Afghan evacuees entering the United States since 2021. Mayorkas had stonewalled the House Committee on Homeland Security’s request for documents and materials after a <a href="https://house.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98549d605f077248c2019d3db&amp;id=efc0a5af93&amp;e=df5aeb1539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 2023 request</a>.
“While the produced documents provide some basic information regarding Afghan evacuees, they fall well short of what was requested by the Committee,” Green wrote at the time. “For example, the Department failed to produce a single e-mail or other communication from Department employees related to the withdrawal from Afghanistan or Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) screening, vetting, or inspection of Afghan evacuees at U.S. Ports of Entry.”
In April 2023, Pfluger led the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence to <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2023/04/19/icymi-hearing-highlights-the-dangers-posed-to-the-u-s-homeland-by-the-biden-administrations-catastrophic-afghanistan-withdrawal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hear testimony</a> from national security experts on the dangerous consequences to U.S. homeland security from the botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Simone Ledeen, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, stated, “I am increasingly concerned given the sheer number of people that are crossing over…Those first couple of planes that took off from Kabul Airport were full of people who had not been vetted, and subsequent vetting actually showed that some of them had in place IEDs and appeared on our biometrics, so I have very grave concerns about this.”
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article.
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House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green (R-TN) harshly reacted to reports that Vice President Kamala Harris planned a trip to the Southwest border of the United States on Friday, snapping that she was the “arsonist returning to the scene of the fire.”
Harris was charged by President Joe Biden with responsibility for handling the border crisis: in March 2021. Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/24/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-in-a-meeting-on-immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”
“It’s been more than three years since Vice President and ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris last went to the border, and her last-ditch visit now is little more than the arsonist returning to the scene of the fire,” Green fired. “Since President Biden charged her with stemming the historic surge of illegal aliens across our sovereign borders, CBP has recorded more than 10 million inadmissible alien encounters, more than triple the number recorded under the prior administration. Millions of these individuals, along with roughly two million known gotaways, have descended on every community in this country, putting a massive strain on local resources and causing untold pain and suffering for families of innocent Americans like Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nungaray.”
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“Vice President Harris has no interest in securing the border and ending this crisis—because it is the Biden-Harris administration’s refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress that caused it in the first place,” he concluded.
“Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens says Vice President Kamala Harris has not spoken with him since he was appointed in July 2023,” <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/kamala-harris-border-patrol-chiefs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a> pointed out in July. “Retired Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz told CBS in March he also never spoke with Harris his tenure from August 2021 through June 2023.”
In September 2022, Harris <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/vice-president-kamal-harris-under-fire-for-saying-the-border-is-secure-mark-morgan-united-states-customs-order-protection-immigration-migrants-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a>, “The border is secure. &#8230; We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.” The same month, she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/haitian-migrants-texas-del-rio-bridge-expelled-us-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slandered</a> Mounted Border Patrol agents after <a href="https://www.heritage.org/immigration/heritage-explains/caught-lie-border-patrol-agents-never-whipped-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false claims</a> of them whipping illegal immigrants came forth, saying, “What I saw depicted, those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were, was horrible. &#8230; Human beings should never be treated that way. And I’m deeply troubled about it.”
In 2015, she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/undocumented-immigrant-not-a-criminal-california-attorney-general-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

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After U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Customs and Border Protection</a> (CBP) released their border encounter numbers for July 2024, showing such numbers have surpassed 10 million, along with roughly 2 million known gotaways, since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) blistered the Biden administration for their failure to control the border.
“Despite the false narrative they’re attempting to project, the unprecedented border crisis the president and his ‘border czar’ have created continues to rage on,” Green stated. “This administration is orchestrating a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to cross at ports of entry instead of between them—thereby creating a façade of improved optics for the administration, but in reality imposing a growing burden on our communities. Total encounters at our ports—land, sea, and air—are up exponentially this fiscal year compared to the Biden-Harris administration’s first year in office, and are on track to surpass last year’s total. Since January 2023, more than 1.28 million inadmissible aliens have been granted entry to our country at official ports of entry through just the CBP One and CHNV mass-parole programs Biden and Harris created. And now the CHNV program has been halted due to massive fraud.”
“Even if another illegal alien did not cross our Southwest border for the remainder of Biden-Harris’ term, the millions they have already allowed into our country have done damage that will take decades to remedy,” he continued. &#8220;And for the families of Americans like Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and Jocelyn Nungaray, that damage will never be undone.”
Riley’s body was found February 22 on the University of Georgia campus after she had gone for a jog, with police beginning a search for her after she did not return home. Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan national, was arrested and charged the following day.
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Rachel Morin, 37, a mother of five, was murdered in Maryland last year. Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, 23, an illegal immigrant was accused of raping and murdering Morin six months after illegally crossing the southern U.S. border.
Nungaray, 12, was is believed to have been murdered by two adult illegal immigrants from Venezuela in June of this year.

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On Monday, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) called for the resignation of U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after the near assassination of former President Donald Trump, saying she had misled the committee by claiming Trump’s team had not requested additional security prior to the assassination attempt.
Cheatle is set to testify before the committee on Monday. She is expected to say, “The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed. As the director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/22/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-testimony-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding that she will add, “We must learn what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13th does not happen again. Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far from my thoughts.”
“While the American people are still searching for answers, we have enough to know that Director Cheatle should no longer hold her position,” Green said in a statement. “The Committee has worked in good faith to get answers since July 13th. In response, Director Cheatle refused to testify before our Committee, and DHS has been anything but transparent or forthcoming.”
Green then adumbrated the case against Cheatle, declaring, “First, Director Cheatle argued the Secret Service could not position counter-snipers in the location of the shooter because of the angle of the roof. This was an absurd, unacceptable, and obviously unfounded excuse. Director Cheatle also misled the Committee by claiming Trump’s security detail never requested more security. It has now been reported by both the Washington Post and the New York Times, however, that the Trump detail repeatedly made requests for more resources that were denied. Lastly, Director Cheatle placed blame at the feet of local law enforcement for the failures of that day––blatantly ignoring the fact that local officers indicated ahead of time they did not have the ability to secure the building that the shooter used to fire those fateful shots.” 

“That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point,” Cheatle had <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4776617-secret-service-director-assassination-attempt-roof/">told</a> ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And so, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/20/trump-secret-service-security-attempted-assassination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Saturday, “Trump advisers’ anger deepened after an agency spokesman publicly denied that any request for additional security lodged by Trump or his detail had ever been rejected. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has been under pressure to resign over security lapses at the rally, repeated that denial in a meeting with Trump campaign leadership in Wisconsin on Monday, people familiar with the discussions said.”
The day after the attempted assassination, Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, stated, “The assertion that a member of the former president’s security team requested additional security resources that the U.S. Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security rebuffed is absolutely false.”
 “For more than 120 years, the Secret Service has had a no-fail mission to protect our nation’s presidents,” Green continued. “Secret Service agents put themselves in danger—sometimes at the cost of their very lives—to carry out this mission, and to protect our democratic form of government. These brave men and women deserve to be led by someone they can be confident in. Our nation deserves that. Director Cheatle has rightfully admitted the near assassination of a former president was a failure. She even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/kimberly-cheatle-secret-service.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the buck stops with her. For the good of this country, Director Cheatle must resign immediately.”

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Head Of House Committee On Homeland Security Calls On Cheatle To Resign

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House lawmakers subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> on Friday over the security failures leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump last week.
House Committee on Homeland Security Mark Green (R-TN) <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/07/19/chairman-green-subpoenas-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-for-documents-regarding-attempted-assassination-of-former-president-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Mayorkas that he must provide certain documents on how the Secret Service planned to secure the area where Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania last week and provide what policies the Secret Service had in place for dealing with assassination attempts. Green is also seeking Homeland Security communications regarding providing security for Trump. 
“The Department of Homeland Security has failed to properly satisfy our requests for documents and information regarding the security efforts to prevent and respond to the assassination attempt on President Trump — and the piecemeal information it has provided over phone calls is woefully inadequate,” Green said in a statement. 
“In order for this Committee to conduct proper oversight over DHS and the U.S. Secret Service, the department and agency must cooperate,” he added. “This Committee is dedicated to getting answers regarding what happened on Saturday in Pennsylvania, which not only resulted in the near assassination of a former president, but also the murder of a father of two, and the severe injury of two other Americans. The American people, the Comperatore family, and the individuals who receive protective services deserve accountability.” 
During Trump’s rally, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks was able to get within 150 yards of Trump and fire multiple shots at the former president. Trump was struck in the ear, two rally goers were critically injured, and 50-year-old Corey Comperatore was killed.
“Due to the extraordinary and urgent circumstances under investigation, and with less than four months before the election, the Committee seeks swift and thorough compliance with its requests for documents and information,” Green wrote 
“Analyzing the security plan for the event site, direct evidence of protective resource levels, and the rules of engagement for U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agents will begin to provide the factual grounds to assess security and policy shortcomings,” he added.
The Secret Service has come under sharp criticism over its handling of the rally, with calls for Director Kimberly Cheatle to step down. Mayorkas previously said that he has 100% confidence in her. Green said that Mayorkas has so far declined requests to meet with the committee.

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